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Nearly 1,900 organizations, accredited within the ACCME system, offer relevant, practice-based continuing medical education. Their activities include nearly 26 million interactions with health professional participants annually. The ACCME offers a range of resources to support accredited providers.

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The ACCME is committed to supporting high quality, community-based CME for local physicians and health care teams throughout the United States and around the world. Through its recognition process, the ACCME designates state medical societies as accreditors of local CME organizations.

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The ACCME’s network of 20,000 volunteers provides the foundation for the accreditation system. From serving on the ACCME Board of Directors to participating as surveyors in the accreditation review process, to joining local communities' CME committees, volunteers help shape the strategic direction of accredited CME.

CME Addresses Ebola

In response to the Ebola public health situation, the American Hospital Association (AHA) has provided an Ebola education package for CME providers. This package contains information that the American Hospital Association believes would be useful to healthcare providers and institutions right now.

Please note: These materials are current as of the dates noted. Users should consult the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or other cited sources on the day they access this information to get the most current information or version that may now be available. If you have specific questions about the information and recommendations contained in the attached material, we ask that you immediately contact the CDC or your local public health authority or infection control officer for the information you seek.

​Support Rapid Dissemination of Education

The ACCME has offered the CME provider community as a distribution network for this important information. We urge all CME providers within the ACCME accreditation system to assist with the dissemination of this information.

You may be able to use these materials in a variety of ways. You could include these materials in your currently scheduled CME activities—regardless of topic or audience. Is there an activity being done today or tomorrow in which this information can be included? Perhaps you could add these slides to an already prepared presentation to show the audience at the beginning of an activity today—or hand out the fact sheet. You could publish these materials on your Web site and email them to your learners and healthcare community. If you have already prepared education about Ebola, these materials may augment yours. Your use of these materials in whatever ways are appropriate for you will support the rapid dissemination of important information to a wide audience of healthcare professionals.

In a press briefing on October 13, Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said, “What we need to do is all take responsibility for improving the safety of those on the front lines….All of us have to work together to do whatever is possible to reduce the risk that any other healthcare worker becomes infected.” He stressed the importance of education and training in increasing awareness and increasing the ability to respond rapidly to Ebola.

The CME community has the ability to provide critically needed education to address this public health priority. Please join the ACCME and AHA in taking action.

Take Our Survey

In order to assess the CME community’s impact in this endeavor, the ACCME and the AHA ask that you take a short survey to inform us whether or not you used these materials and to provide us with some information about who we have reached.